Life

Life Magazine. The Great American Magazine: An Inside History of Life. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1986. ISBN: 0394459873

First edition STATED FIRST EDITION. 443 pages with index 16 pages black & white illustrations. The book is NEAR FINE -- price-clipped. Dust jacket is FINE. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects. Dust jacket reads: "WHO DOESN'T REMEMBER THE OLD LIFE? Who-depending on age-doesn't remember "The Birth of a Baby," or the Dallas assassination pictures, or "The Epic of Man"? What little town visited by Life photographers for a feature on, say, "Life Goes to a Slumber Party" has ever forgotten it? The weekly, newsy Life has been gone for nearly fifteen years now, but in some extraordinary way it is still with us, a souvenir of all our pasts. Loudon Wainwright spent more than twenty years on the Life staff-as office boy, reporter, correspondent, writer, editor, columnist. Now, having interviewed scores of other former staff members, and secured unprecedented access to Life's archives in order to gather still more material, he has given us this detailed, affectionate, pungent, funny and deeply felt inside history: The Great American Magazine. Here is Life from the beginning in 1936, with Henry Luce-aided by his brilliant playwright wife Clare Boothe and an unlikely crew of idea-men-inventing the magazine and then seeing it almost killed by success when the ad rates couldn't be raised fast enough to keep up with the rocketing circulation. Here are tough and canny editors like John Shaw Billings (who kept a blunt and sometimes angry diary about the action) and Ed Thompson. . . dozens of writers bursting with ideas, including Alexander King (who once proudly turned up with a dwarf short enough to have his picture printed life-size across a two-page spread), Lincoln Barnett, Archibald MacLeish, Barry Farrell and Shana Alexander. . . the photographers-some were prima donnas, but more were unfailingly brave and talented-from Robert Capa to Larry Burrows, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gene Smith and dozens more. Here are the hundreds of staff members surviving brutal schedules to get the magazine out each week, their efforts frequently lubricated by Jack Daniel's and relieved by macabre jokes (writers dubbed one office the Hotel Plunge, as in the tabloid headline "Woman Dies in Hotel Plunge"). And here are the stories, from the Dust Bowl to D-Day, that caught the nation's eye and led eventually to a circulation of 8,500,000 copies, fifty-one times a year. As a writer and editor deeply involved in some of the biggest of these stories-he was on the original team assigned to cover the astronauts and the space program-Wainwright is in an exceptional position to show just how Life worked. We see Theodore White interviewing Jackie Kennedy after her husband's assassination, and writing his unforgettable Camelot piece.an editor hiring a lip-reader to eavesdrop visually on the Queen of England watching her first American football game (and then, contrite, not using what he got)Öreporters masterminding the elopement of an heiress in order to tie down an exclusive to the storyÖforeign correspondents and photographers risking their lives in the streets of Budapest during the Hungarian revolution-and in all the other wars. Nor does Wainwright neglect Life's darker moments and the sometimes deadly pressures of working there. He also gives us a splendid, blow-by-blow account of Clifford Irving's Howard Hughes hoax, the biggest and most embarrassing con job in modern journalism. In the end, of course, after a long struggle to keep it going, the weekly Life folded, a victim largely of television. Clearly, there will never be another magazine like it, nor will anyone ever write another book about Life like this one. Part memoir, part detailed historical reportage, entirely delightful, it is the best account of the life and times of a magazine since Brendan Gill's Here at The New Yorker." Hard Back condition: Near Fine in Fine dj

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Samuel Beal: The Life of Hiuen-Tsiang: Shaman Hwui-Li with an introduction containing an account of the works of I-Tsing, New Delhi, India Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2003 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 81-215-0332-9
81-215-0332-9 New

The Life of Hiuen-Tsiang by Shaman Hwui Li is a companion volume to the Si-Yu-Ki or the Buddhist Records of the Western World of Hiuen-Tsiang. It is an indispensable source-book for the scholars interested in the history of ancient India in general and Buddhism in particular. The Life of Hiuen-Tsiang contains a biographical account of his life by his disciple Hwui Li. It elucidates the details relating to the events in the life of the great scholar, saint and pilgrim-traveller. The life is divided into five Books and covers the entire life-span of Hiuen-Tsiang, beginning with his birth till his death in the year 664. The description of the eventful life of his master which was as much occupied by travels as by an almost unbelievably gigantic task of translating a large number of original Buddhist works from Sanskrit into Chinese, is marked by reverential attitude and makes a fascinating reading. But more than that, it is a compendium of information on contemporary China, India and those remote parts of Central Asia which the great pilgrim traversed during his journey to India. Samuel Beal's translation of the Life from original Chinese is an authentic rendering with copious notes on controversial matters. It also contains an account of the works of I-Tsing who also journeyed into India in the footsteps of Hiuen-Tsiang. Besides a Preface by L.Crammer Byung, the present edition also contains a detailed Introduction by Samuel Beal wherein various controversial matters including those pertaining to the indentification of names and places have been discussed. Printed Pages: 266. Reprint New Hard Cover 14 Cms x 22 Cms; Reprint

[SW: Geography Travels Voyages HistoryBuddhism and Buddhist Studies India China Biographies]

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McGraw, Phillip C. Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters, NY Hyperion 1999
ISBN: 0786884592

Some people spend their lives reacting to what life hands them, while others craft life to fit their goals. Author Phillip C. McGraw, who is a psychologist but describes himself as a strategist, is determined to make sure that his readers are the creators of their lives, not created by their lives. By accepting that you are personally accountable for every element of your life, McGraw says, you can erase the negative "epidemic behaviors" (found in all of American society: denial, false assumptions, inertia, deceptive masking) in your life and reach your goals. Written in a tough-love, sometimes cantankerous tone, this self-help book is not for those looking to explore their inner child or visualize away negative energy. No, this is pull-yourself-up-by-the- bootstraps advice from someone who's done just that. McGraw opens with a scene describing how he helped Oprah Winfrey survive--and win--the 1998 "Mad Cow" lawsuit in Texas, when she was having difficulty coping with the reality of what was happening to her. He helped her face the facts about the lawsuit, after which she was better able to participate in crafting a strategy to win it. McGraw first forces you to take a good hard look at who you are by dissecting your personality. It may be painful to realize that you fall into the "Porcupine" or "Perfecto" or any of the other personality types McGraw delineates, but here it's true that there's no gain without pain, because (Life Law No. 4) "You Can't Change What You Don't Acknowledge." He then describes in depth all 10 "Life Laws"--the rules by which the world plays--that he learned the hard way. Laws such as "You Either Get It, or You Don't," "Life Is Managed; It Is Not Cured," and "You Have to Name It to Claim It" make up the bulk of the book and McGraw's realist philosophy. If you learn and abide by the Life Laws and go on to create a Life Strategy, McGraw claims you will not only know yourself better and eliminate negative behaviors, you will also know how to reach any goal you set for yourself. Soft Cover

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Henry Mayhew (1812-1887): German life & Manners as seen in Saxony at the present day: with an account of village life - town life - fashionable life - domestic life - married life - school and university life, etc.. Illustrated with songs and pictures of the student customs at the university of Jena. London, H. Allen & Co., 1865.
Einbändige Ausgabe des zweibändigen Werkes mit gleichem Titel von 1864 (EA). "The very extensive circulation enjoyed by the previous editions of Mr. Henry Mayhew's "German life and Manners as seen in Saxony," has induced his publishers to issue that amusing work in a cheaper and more condensed form, to suit the requirements of the reading public at large. Of the truthfullness and vivacity of Mr. Mayhew's sketches of domestic life at Eisenach, and student life at Jena, there cannot be the shadow of doubt." (publisher's notice) Neben der Darstellung verschiedenster Sitten und Gebräuche geht der Autor in seinem letzten Kapitel ausführlich der Frage nach: Why is Germany so poor?

Olnwd. mit ornamentalem Schmuckmedaillon in Golddruck auf Deckel nebst Titel auf Rücken, Einband wenige Gebrsp., Ecken u. Kanten wenig beschabt, Papierabschnitt im Vors., Eingangstafel mit mensurschlagenden Studenten, 451 Seiten (z. T. unaufgeschnittene S.) auf festem Papier mit zwei ganzseitigen Holzschnitten und weiteren Textholzschnitten, 8°.

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